American extremists will threaten to explode a series of bombs along the marathon route

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Tom Lonergan : writer

Terrorists Threaten the Boston Marathon Race Director Killed Worlds Largest Spectator Event at Risk. The trouble with most terrorists is they think too small. This is the message Boston police receive days before fifteen thousand runners and two and a half million spectators descend on the city for the marathon. Even bin Laden only killed thousands. What if the target was larger? What if millions were at risk?Sgt. Mike Quinn, Vietnam vet, homicide detective and addicted marathoner, is called in to help when domestic terrorists, looking too piggy-back onto the World Trade Center disaster, threaten a race day bloodbath. How real is the threat? On Sunday, October 28, 2001, six weeks after the attack on the World Trade Center, the Boston Globe printed a call-to-arms by Rocky Suhayda, the chairman of the American Nazi Party: if we were one-tenth as serious as the bin Laden terrorists, we just might start getting somewhere.